Stage Door theatre company back in business with The Addams Family Musical

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It’s comeback time for Stage Door theatre company who are putting on The Addams Family Musical from November 27-30 at the Windmill Entertainment Centre, Littlehampton.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to

00:06speak to Shannon. Now, you're with Stage Door Theatre Company, you're at the Windmill in

00:11Littlehampton, and you're finally doing a show that you wanted to do last year. You've

00:16got back to the point where you can, and you're thrilled to be doing it, I guess?

00:21Yeah, absolutely. It's been a long time waiting for this to happen, obviously after the Harvester

00:28burnt down last year, unfortunately, but it's so exciting to finally put it on. At

00:33one point, I didn't think it was ever going to happen, the windmill kept getting delayed

00:36and delayed. So yeah, it's brilliant. And the cast have been waiting so patiently to

00:40get this show back on. It's really good to get back into it.

00:43And this is a comeback for the company, isn't it? It's your first big show for a while,

00:48a quiet time after Covid.

00:50Yeah, absolutely. So, after Covid, we weren't sure if the company was going to start again.

00:56Unfortunately, we lost one of our founders, Mike, throughout the Covid period, and he

01:02was kind of like, one of our main leaders in the company. We put a show on last, just

01:09after Covid, to kind of, it was more of a memorial show for him. And it was brilliant

01:14to get everyone back together. And I think at that point, we all kind of realised we

01:17can't let this fizzle out, we need to keep this company going. And that's kind of what

01:23this show's about, is kind of getting us back on the...

01:25I've been interviewing Stage Door for years. You've got to keep it going, haven't you?

01:29Absolutely.

01:30The point is, you've moved up the ladder, haven't you? You're no longer the kid. You are...

01:36Yeah, I've become an adult. I actually, during this time, I've actually had a little girl

01:42myself.

01:45I actually, she's only 11 weeks old. So I've been, yeah, so I'm directing a show whilst

01:51having a newborn. I had a week after rehearsals began, so it's been busy.

01:56If you can juggle those two things, you can cope with anything, can't you?

01:59It's impressive, yeah.

02:00It's exceedingly impressive, yes. Brilliant. And it's coming together nicely, then?

02:05Yeah, absolutely. The cast have been working so hard, even with lots of changes we've been

02:11adding in. It's, you know, it's part of the past of directing myself and my assistant

02:17director, Emily Rose. We've been tweaking lots as we go along, but it's, yeah, it's

02:22coming together really nicely. I'm really proud of them.

02:24Fantastic. Well, it's clearly an important show for the company and an important one

02:28for you. All very best wishes for it. I hope it goes brilliantly. Thank you ever so much.

02:33Brilliant. Thank you very much.

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